[SOLVED] urxvt doesn't launch after system update

Kekker_ · 2017-08-23 03:27:41

I just booted into Linux for the first time in a few months and ran a system update. Afterwards, urxvt (my only installed terminal emulator) won't launch. I tried rebooting, commenting out any urxvt things in my Xresources file and then rebooting, and neither worked. I can't install another terminal emulator since the one I have kinda doesn't work, so no pacman, and I can't extract anything with my current file manager for some reason. Any ideas what might be going on? Is there anything that I can do to fix it without trying a chroot or something?

Last edited by Kekker_ (2017-08-23 13:33:17)

Scimmia · 2017-08-23 03:28:43

Log into a tty and install something else.

jasonwryan · 2017-08-23 03:55:16

Moving to NC...

Slithery · 2017-08-23 10:49:53

Is this the urxvt package from the repos, or is it one of the versions from the AUR?

seth · 2017-08-23 12:37:21

and I can't extract anything with my current file manager for some reason

You should also take a very close look into your pacman log - this smells like more issues, probably partial or forced updates.
urxvt links libz and libbz2, so you might have encountered some problems *at least* there.

Kekker_ · 2017-08-23 13:09:07

slithery wrote:

Is this the urxvt package from the repos, or is it one of the versions from the AUR?

Pretty sure it's from the repos. I might be wrong. I installed it a reeeaaallly long time ago.

I'll try logging into a tty and reinstalling it alongside another terminal emulator. I'll let you know how it goes.

Kekker_ · 2017-08-23 13:17:15

Ah, so it was in fact one of the AUR ones (better-wheel-scrolling). I updated my AUR packages with yaourt from the tty, but it's still not loading because of some dependency or something. I've got another terminal installed, so I'm good. Thanks guys.

Trilby · 2017-08-23 13:17:35

Kekker_ wrote:

Pretty sure it's from the repos. I might be wrong.

You are the only one capable of checking.

Members here will definitely help you with whatever the root cause of the problem is - but you need to take some initiative to figure out how to handle the simple parts. This initiative may include reading wiki pages about troubleshooting, reading the pacman man page, and in general being proactive about understanding your system.

EDIT: this was cross posted with the previous post. I'm assuming you don't care to fix urxvt. If that is correct, please mark the thread as solved. If it is not correct, you really need to provide more information "because of some dependency or something" is not an error.

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Kekker_ · 2017-08-23 13:31:57

I had been reading the wikis and such. I've had this problem since 9:00 last night and was up for a few hours trying to get it to work, but I'd been using my Windows machine for long enough that I'd forgotten both the AUR and TTY exist. My own fault, I know, but I did post here as a last resort. Once I was reminded of TTY everything went smoothly. Thank you for your help, and I'm sorry if this was a bit of a dumb post.

I just fixed my problem with the original AUR install I had (which I hadn't fixed before), so I'll mark it as solved now.

For those curious, I installed the rxvt-unicode package from the official repos, then reinstalled the AUR package I had before (rxvt-unicode-better-wheel-scrolling), and now it all works fine. I think installing the official package solved the dependency problem.

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Slithery · 2017-08-23 13:44:20

Kekker_ wrote:

I think installing the official package solved the dependency problem.

No, it didn't. Rebuilding and reinstalling rxvt-unicode-better-wheel-scrolling solved the problem, you could have just done that step.

Kekker_ · 2017-08-24 16:46:46

slithery wrote:

Kekker_ wrote:
I think installing the official package solved the dependency problem.
No, it didn't. Rebuilding and reinstalling rxvt-unicode-better-wheel-scrolling solved the problem, you could have just done that step.

No, it didn't. I couldn't properly reinstall rxvt-unicode-better-wheel-scrolling due to an unresolved dependency. I had already tried reinstalling it before I installed the official rxvt-unicode.

ewaller · 2017-08-24 17:32:03

Have you compared the dependencies of the two versions ?

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